Show names for deleted nodes

[moonjam]

I'm not sure how simple this would be, but is there any way that the names of deleted nodes/meshes...etc could be visible? Basically, I'm merging objects into another scene with a stack of tySelect modifiers and having to manually note which mesh they were using to pick the corresponding object in the new scene. 

Does that make sense?

[tyFlow]

Unfortunately that's not possible. Once a node is deleted, it no longer has a reference in the scene. And its reference is where its name is taken from. No reference = no name

The display of "<deleted>" is not my own implementation, but instead Max's way of displaying a deleted node inside a nodelistbox.

[moonjam]

Ahhh, I did wonder if something like that would be the case. Never mind!

I think I've found a way to work around it